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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

They'd better be, that country will burn to the ground once their civil servants don't get paychecks and once their seniors don't get their pensions, and once their pedophiles don't get their welfare benefits.

For anybody unfamiliar with this (the news is from earlier this year):

http://news.yahoo.com/furor-greece-o...174002476.html

The Labor Ministry said categories added to the expanded list — that also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists — were included for purposes of medical assessment and used as a gauge for allocating financial assistance.

The new list gives pyromaniacs and pedophiles disability pay up to 35 percent, compared to 80 percent for heart transplant recipients.

"It's really not serious to grant Peeping Toms a 20-30 percent disability rate, and 10 percent to diabetics, who have insulin shots four or five times a day," said Vardakastanis.